Alice Drummond

Alice Drummond

Born: May 21, 1928
Died: November 30, 2016
in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA

Movies for Alice Drummond...

Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
Title: Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
Character: Self
Released: January 7, 2020
Type: Movie
The documentary that tells us the full story from where it all started through to the future of the "Ghostbusters" franchise.
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Furry Vengeance
Title: Furry Vengeance
Character: Mrs. Martin
Released: April 30, 2010
Type: Movie
When real estate developer Dan Sanders finalizes plans to level a swath of pristine Oregon forest to make way for a soulless housing subdivision, a band of woodland creatures rises up to throw a monkey wrench into the greedy scheme. Just how much mischief from the furry critters can the businessman take before he calls it quits?
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After.Life
Title: After.Life
Character: Mrs. Hutton
Released: November 7, 2009
Type: Movie
Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for burial.
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Motherhood
Title: Motherhood
Character: Edith
Released: January 21, 2009
Type: Movie
In Manhattan, a mother of two preparing for her daughter's sixth birthday party has no idea of the challenges she's about to face in order to pull off the event.
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Synecdoche, New York
Title: Synecdoche, New York
Character: Actress Playing Frances
Released: October 24, 2008
Type: Movie
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
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Chronic Town
Title: Chronic Town
Character: Elizabeth
Released: April 3, 2008
Type: Movie
Truman Korovin is a lonely, sharp-witted cab driver in Fairbanks, Alaska, 1980. The usual routine of picking up fares and spending his nights at his favorite bar, the Boatel, is disrupted when his girlfriend, Emily, dumps him on one of the coldest nights of the year. After an acid trip, Truman winds up in the local loony bin. Imprisoned in a grueling therapy group, Truman gets re-acquainted with loonies who are his old cab fares, which includes a local stripper he has insulted more than once. In this world, Truman must find or lose himself.
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Doubt
Title: Doubt
Character: Sister Veronica
Released: February 27, 2008
Type: Movie
In 1964, a Catholic school nun questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student, suspecting him of abuse.
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Mitch Albom's For One More Day
Title: Mitch Albom's For One More Day
Character: Rose
Released: December 9, 2007
Type: Movie
While back in his hometown, a suicidal former baseball player encounters the spirit of his deceased mother, who takes him on a sentimental tour meant to restore his love of life.
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The Honeymooners
Title: The Honeymooners
Character: Miss Benvenuti
Released: June 10, 2005
Type: Movie
Working class New York bus driver Ralph Kramden is always coming up with get-rich-quick schemes for him and his best friend, Ed Norton, who's always around to help him get in (and out of) trouble.
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House of D
Title: House of D
Character: Mrs. Brevoort
Released: April 29, 2005
Type: Movie
In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression after the death of her husband, the young boy is left to his own devices. When Tom develops a crush on schoolmate Melissa, Pappass feels abandoned and begins behaving erratically.
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Title: Boston Legal
Character: Lydia Tuffalo
Released: October 3, 2004
Type: TV
Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on the professional and personal lives of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. A spin-off of long-running series The Practice.
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Title: The Jury
Released: June 8, 2004
Type: TV
Set in New York City, the series brings the viewer into the jury room to watch the deliberators try to answer the many questions posed during a trial. As facts are exposed through flashbacks of testimony and crime footage, viewers will form their own opinions about the guilt or innocence of the defendant. Following each verdict, a final flashback will let viewers see the crime as it actually happened and reveal whether or not the jury made the right decision.
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Pieces of April
Title: Pieces of April
Character: Grandma Dottie
Released: October 17, 2003
Type: Movie
Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But when she discovers that her mother has a fatal form of breast cancer, she invites the clan to her place for Thanksgiving. While her father struggles to drive her family into the city, April -- an inexperienced cook -- runs into kitchen trouble and must ask a neighbor for help.
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The Rising Place
Title: The Rising Place
Character: Aunt Millie
Released: February 1, 2001
Type: Movie
The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injustice and world war.
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Title: Ed
Character: Mrs. Shroeder
Released: October 8, 2000
Type: TV
After his wife leaves him and he's fired from his job at a high-profile New York city law firm, Ed Stevens moves back to his small hometown of Stuckeyville where he buys the local bowling alley and attempts to win the heart of his high school crush.
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Joe Gould's Secret
Title: Joe Gould's Secret
Character: Helen
Released: January 21, 2000
Type: Movie
Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a 1942 piece about him, "Professor Seagull," bringing Gould some celebrity and an invitation to join the Greenwich Village Ravens, a poetry club he's often crashed. Gould's touchy, querulous personality and his frequent dropping in on Mitchell for hours of chat lead to a breakup, but the two Joes stay in touch until Gould's death and Mitchell's unveiling of the secret.
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I'll Take You There
Title: I'll Take You There
Character: Stella
Released: September 3, 1999
Type: Movie
Still nursing wounds from a breakup, a woman is forced by her sister into a blind date that turns into a nightmare.
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The Love Letter
Title: The Love Letter
Character: Postal Clerk
Released: May 21, 1999
Type: Movie
A romantic comedy about a mysterious love letter that turns a sleepy New England town upside down.
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Earthly Possessions
Title: Earthly Possessions
Character: Old Woman in Jalopy
Released: March 20, 1999
Type: Movie
A bored homemaker planning to run away from her minister husband is taken hostage in a bank robbery. However, she sees the thrill in being involved in the chase and becomes an accomplice to the young robber.
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Advice From a Caterpillar
Title: Advice From a Caterpillar
Character: Diner Grandmother
Released: February 15, 1999
Type: Movie
When it comes to romance, Missy's attitude has always been whatever. After all, her artistic career is flourishing...her spacious New York City loft is fabulous...and her relationship with a married man is totally uncomplicated-what more could a modern girl want? But then Missy meets Brat, who's sweet, genuine and shares her fondness for 70's sitcoms. Unfortunately, he's also dating her pal Spaz. When Missy and Brat unexpectedly fall for each other, will she lose her identity...and her best friend? No matter how far you run, true love always finds you.
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Just the Ticket
Title: Just the Ticket
Character: Lady with Cash
Released: February 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Gary Starke is one of the best ticket scalpers in New York City. His girlfriend, Linda, doesn't approve of his criminal lifestyle, though, and dumps him when she gets the opportunity to study cooking in Paris. Gary realizes that he has to give up scalping if he has any chance of winning her back. But before he does, he wants to cash out on one last big score. He gets his chance when the pope announces he'll be performing Easter Mass at Yankee Stadium.
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Office Killer
Title: Office Killer
Character: Carlotta Douglas
Released: December 3, 1997
Type: Movie
When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to cope. But after accidentally killing one of her co-workers, she discovers that murder can quench the loneliness of her home life, as a macabre office place forms in her basement, populated by dead co-workers.
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In & Out
Title: In & Out
Character: Aunt Susan
Released: September 10, 1997
Type: Movie
A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.
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Til There Was You
Title: Til There Was You
Character: Harriet
Released: May 30, 1997
Type: Movie
Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in. It took them twenty years to fall in love at first sight.
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Commandments
Title: Commandments
Character: Mrs. Mann
Released: May 2, 1997
Type: Movie
Seth Warner has reached the end of his rope. Ever since his wife died two years earlier, his world has been in turmoil. He is despondent, his career has fallen apart, even his house has been destroyed. There seems to be nothing left for him to live for. Confused and angry after two years of suffering, he finally directs his wrath at God from the rooftop of his apartment building in New York City. In the midst of a wild thunderstorm he demands to know why he has been betrayed by the god he has believed in and honored his whole life. God's answer is to strike down Seth's dog in a bolt of lightning. Pushed beyond his limits, Seth decides to respond to his years of torment by breaking each of the biblical Ten Commandments.
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Title: Spin City
Character: Sondra Spencer
Released: September 17, 1996
Type: TV
Workaholic Mike Flaherty is the Deputy Mayor of New York City, serving as Mayor Randall Winston's key strategist and much-needed handler. Mike runs the city with the help of his oddball staff: an anxious and insecure press secretary; a sexist, boorish chief of staff; an impeccably groomed gay activist running minority affairs; a sharp and efficient, man-crazy accountant; and an idealistic young speechwriter. Like Mike, they are all professionally capable but personally challenged.
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Walking and Talking
Title: Walking and Talking
Character: Betsy
Released: July 17, 1996
Type: Movie
Just as Amelia thinks she's over her anxiety and insecurity, her best friend announces her engagement, bringing her anxiety and insecurity right back.
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Title: New York News
Released: September 28, 1995
Type: TV
New York News is a newspaper drama which was broadcast in the United States by CBS as part of its 1995 fall lineup.
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To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Title: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Character: Clara
Released: September 7, 1995
Type: Movie
A cross country trip to Hollywood is cut short by an unreliable engine & an unpleasant encounter with law enforcement. With the power of drag, three self proclaimed career-girls bring a bit of much needed beauty to rural middle America!
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Jeffrey
Title: Jeffrey
Character: Grandma Rose
Released: August 18, 1995
Type: Movie
Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect himself. As fate would have it, shortly after his declaration of a sex-free existence, he meets the handsome Steve Howard, his dream man -- except for his HIV-positive status. Facing this dilemma, Jeffrey turns to his best friend and an outrageous priest for guidance.
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Nobody's Fool
Title: Nobody's Fool
Character: Hattie
Released: December 23, 1994
Type: Movie
Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- forgotten son and family have moved back to town, so Sully faces unfamiliar family responsibilities. Meanwhile, Sully's landlady's banker son plots to push through a new development and evict Sully from his mother's life.
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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Title: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Character: Mrs. Finkle
Released: February 4, 1994
Type: Movie
He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!
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Money for Nothing
Title: Money for Nothing
Character: Mrs. Breen
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: Movie
When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash.
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Daybreak
Title: Daybreak
Character: Anna
Released: May 8, 1993
Type: Movie
When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical government quarantines them in camps, offering no alternative except death. But a gutsy rebel named Torch sets out to help the afflicted by leading an underground effort to spirit the victims to humane sanctuary.
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Title: Frannie's Turn
Character: Rosa Escobar
Released: September 13, 1992
Type: TV
Frannie Escobar, a middle-aged working class woman of Cuban-American extraction who decides she's sick and tired of being a second-class citizen at home and at work.
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Awakenings
Title: Awakenings
Character: Lucy Fishman
Released: December 4, 1990
Type: Movie
Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Zelda
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: Lenny
Released: September 10, 1990
Type: TV
Lenny is an American sitcom which aired on CBS from September 10, 1990 until March 9, 1991. The series, a starring vehicle conceived for comedian Lenny Clarke, was created by Don Reo and produced by Reo's Impact Zone Productions, Witt/Thomas Productions and Buena Vista Television.
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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Title: Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Character: Carolyn (segment ‘Cat From Hell’)
Released: May 3, 1990
Type: Movie
A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.
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Money, Power, Murder.
Title: Money, Power, Murder.
Character: Helen
Released: December 10, 1989
Type: Movie
Peter Finley is a cable-TV newsman who is led into a network of sin and conspiracy when he has interest in a missing anchorwoman's story.
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Animal Behavior
Title: Animal Behavior
Character: Site Committee
Released: October 27, 1989
Type: Movie
Biologist Alex Brisco develops a new method to communicate with chimpanzees. Instead of using machines, she teaches the chimps simple sign language. Her research is overlooked by ignorant colleagues, but one man, Mark, a cellist, helps Alex with her research.
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Nikki and Alexander
Title: Nikki and Alexander
Character: Mrs Klein
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Alexander is a run of the mill New Yorker who meets Nikki, a Russian homeless girl. He agrees to let Nikki spend the night but she ends up moving in....
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Running on Empty
Title: Running on Empty
Character: Mrs. Powell
Released: September 9, 1988
Type: Movie
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Their survival is threatened when their eldest son falls in love with a girl, and announces his wish to live his life on his own terms.
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Funny Farm
Title: Funny Farm
Character: Mrs. Ethel Dinges
Released: June 3, 1988
Type: Movie
Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, eccentric town, where disaster awaits them at every turn.
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Title: The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Character: Juror
Released: May 21, 1987
Type: TV
Molly Dodd — a mid-30s, divorced woman living in New York — faces the comedy and drama of a widely changing career, difficulties of apartment living, love life and its consequences, and more.
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Title: The Equalizer
Character: Kind Woman
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: TV
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
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You Can't Take it With You
Title: You Can't Take it With You
Character: Gay Wellington
Released: November 21, 1984
Type: Movie
A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.
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Ghostbusters
Title: Ghostbusters
Character: Librarian
Released: June 8, 1984
Type: Movie
After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign pays off when a knockout cellist hires the squad to purge her swanky digs of demons that appear to be living in her refrigerator.
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Title: Kate & Allie
Released: March 19, 1984
Type: TV
Kate & Allie is an American television situation comedy which ran from March 19, 1984, to May 22, 1989. Kate & Allie first aired on CBS as a midseason replacement series and only six episodes were initially commissioned, but the favorable response from critics and viewers alike easily convinced CBS to commit to a full season in the fall of 1984. The series was created by Sherry Coben.
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Title: Night Court
Character: Alice Beeker
Released: January 4, 1984
Type: TV
Night Court is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from January 4, 1984 to May 31, 1992. The setting was the night shift of a Manhattan court, presided over by the young, unorthodox Judge Harold T. "Harry" Stone. It was created by comedy writer Reinhold Weege, who had previously worked on Barney Miller in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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Title: Night Court
Character: Mavis Tuttle
Released: January 4, 1984
Type: TV
Night Court is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from January 4, 1984 to May 31, 1992. The setting was the night shift of a Manhattan court, presided over by the young, unorthodox Judge Harold T. "Harry" Stone. It was created by comedy writer Reinhold Weege, who had previously worked on Barney Miller in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Title: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Character: Governor's Secretary
Released: July 23, 1982
Type: Movie
When a big TV crusader Melvin P. Thorpe threatens to expose the Chicken Ranch to public scandal and close it down, Miss Mona doesn't go down without a fight.
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Title: Park Place
Released: April 9, 1981
Type: TV
Park Place is a short-lived legal sitcom that first aired on CBS on April 9, 1981 and was cancelled on April 30, 1981 after four episodes. The series centers on young lawyers working for a legal aid clinic in Manhattan.
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Eyewitness
Title: Eyewitness
Character: Mrs. Eunice Deever
Released: February 13, 1981
Type: Movie
NYC custodian Daryll Deever is a big fan of local news reporter Tony Sokolow, so he is intrigued when she shows up to cover a story at his workplace. There's been a murder in the office building, and Tony suspects that Daryll may have insight into the crime, a notion that he furthers to stay close to her. However, when those behind the killing begin to think that he really knows something, they target the pair to keep their secrets hidden.
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Hide in Plain Sight
Title: Hide in Plain Sight
Character: Mrs. Novack
Released: March 21, 1980
Type: Movie
True story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection Program.
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Sanctuary of Fear
Title: Sanctuary of Fear
Character: Grace Barringer
Released: April 23, 1979
Type: Movie
A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is becoming enmeshed in a series of bizarre incidents she can't explain, and her complaints to the police have gone ignored.
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King of the Gypsies
Title: King of the Gypsies
Character: Zharko's Nurse
Released: December 20, 1978
Type: Movie
Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandson, Dave, leading to infighting between Dave and his father.
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Thieves
Title: Thieves
Character: Mrs. Ramsey
Released: February 11, 1977
Type: Movie
Martin and Sally Cramer grew up on the hardscrabble Lower East Side, where Sally still teaches; meanwhile, Martin's the head of a fancy private school. Romantic dalliances with others convince them that they're meant to be together despite their differences, a decision that's cemented, oddly enough, by an over-the-top argument that draws the police.
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Secret Service
Title: Secret Service
Character: Mrs. Varney
Released: January 12, 1977
Type: Movie
Set in Richmond, Virginia in October 1864, tells the story of a Union spy working to seize control of the telegraph office.
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Man on a Swing
Title: Man on a Swing
Character: Mrs. Dawson
Released: February 24, 1974
Type: Movie
A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is in possession of information known only to the police, he suspects that the man may be more involved in the case than he lets on.
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Particular Men
Title: Particular Men
Released: April 15, 1972
Type: Movie
A fictitious but powerful look at the dawn of the nuclear age, this stage performance follows several government scientists as they develop the atomic bomb, grapple with the morality of their work, and confront major problems with their superiors. Written by award-winning playwright Loring Mandel, this riveting production stars Stacy Keach, Alice Drummond, Lois Smith, Clifton James and Verna Bloom.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Mrs. Varney
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Gay Wellington
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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Where’s Poppa?
Title: Where’s Poppa?
Character: Woman in Elevator
Released: November 10, 1970
Type: Movie
When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to eliminate his aging, senile mother, even though he promised his late father that he'd always take care of her. He fears that his batty mom's eccentricities will shortly lead to Louise's departure.
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Title: Where the Heart Is
Released: September 8, 1969
Type: TV
Where the Heart Is was an American soap opera telecast on the CBS television network from September 8, 1969 to March 23, 1973. Created by Lou Scofield and Margaret DePriest, the program ran for 25 minutes, the remaining five minutes of its timeslot ceded to a CBS news break. Scofield and DePriest were the original head writers. A year after the soap’s premiere, they were succeeded by Pat Falken Smith. In 1972, Smith was replaced by Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer. The series was produced by Tom Donovan and directed by Richard Dunlap.
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The Dog Lover
Title: The Dog Lover
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Jack is the fastidious manager of a local supermarket. The harmless but disruptive actions of his customers frequently give him headaches, which he remedies by holding a can of frozen juice against his forehead. At home, however, Jack is consistently kind, loving, and patient with his wife and daughter. One day the child brings home a stray dog, and his life is turned upside down.